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...troops would be helilifted in and out of Laos in rapid, frequent strikes against the trail. Another calls for the insertion of a sizable U.S. force, at least two divisions, into Laos to block the trail physically. The final and most far-out plan envisions a massive U.S. troops barrier drawn along the 17th parallel all the way across South Viet Nam, Laos and northern Thailand...
...Inner Belt, in essence, will form a barrier to which industrial-educational developments will eventually expand. The DPW faced the following choice: it could put the Belt along Brookline-Elm, through the heart of residential and commercial districts, and allow extra growing room for the businesses who will want to be close to NASA and M.I.T.; or, it could select Portland-Albany, closer to the current boundaries of the commercial and residential areas, and permit these sectors -- in which there is both good and bad housing, prospering and shaky businesses -- to work out their own future...
...Durango, Mexico, and a former California educator, Rodriguez will supervise programs aimed at easing the lot of both braceros (Mexican farm workers) and pochos (a self-description used by native-born Mexican-Americans that the more assimilated consider pejorative), as well as innovating programs to dissolve the cultural barrier that keeps so many Mexican-Americans in proud poverty...
After flirting with the psychological 900-point barrier for nearly two weeks, the Dow-Jones industrial average leaped across it by bounding 5.18 points in one day to 901.95. By week's end, the index forged ahead to 905.96, for a week's gain of 8.91. That was its highest closing since May 4, 1966, and a comeback of 22% from last October...
...climbed 13.87 points to close at 897.05. On top of earlier gains, that gave the market a 43.71-point lift in three weeks-for its strongest rally since January. And it left the Dow-Jones only an edge below the 900 level, which many brokers consider the last psychological barrier to a bounding bull market...